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+'''Evangeline Parsons Yazzie''' ({{circa}} 1952 – May 22, 2022) was a [[Navajo]] educator and author of the first textbook adopted by the [[State_school#United_States|U.S. public education system]] to teach the [[Navajo language]].
+
+== Life ==
+Yazzie received a Master of Arts degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education and a Doctorate in Education from [[Northern Arizona University]] (NAU) where she taught [[Navajo language]] courses for 24 years until 2014. In 2007, Yazzie co-authored a textbook for teaching the Navajo language titled ''Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language'' along with [[Peggy Speas|Margaret Speas]], a professor of linguistics at the [[University of Massachusetts]].<ref name="nau_20080827_navajotextbook"/><ref name="yazzie_2007_dinebizaad"/> In 2008, [[New Mexico]] adopted the textbook making itself the first U.S. state to officially use any text for teaching the Navajo language in its public school system.<ref name="nbc_20080731_nmadopt"/>
+
+Following her retirement in 2014, Yazzie authored several novels about a fictional family's experience of the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]].<ref name="nho_20140401_novels"/><ref name="lpc_20181219_booksigning"/> Yazzie died on May 22, 2022 at age 69.<ref name="nho_20220531_obit"/>
+
+==References==
+{{reflist|refs=
+
+<ref name="lpc_20181219_booksigning">{{cite news
+ |last         = Allen
+ |first        = Krista
+ |title        = Beloved Navajo author receives warm welcome at Page book signing
+ |date         = Dec 19, 2018
+ |work         = [[Lake Powell Chronicle]]
+ |url          = https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
+ |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
+ |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20190205045416/https://lakepowellchronicle.com/article/beloved-navajo-author-receives-warm-welcome-at-page-book-signing
+ |archive-date = Feb 5, 2019
+ |url-status   = live
+}}</ref>
+
+<ref name="nau_20080827_navajotextbook">{{cite web
+ |title        = Navajo professor writes textbook to help save her Native language
+ |date         = Aug 27, 2008
+ |work         = NAU News
+ |url          = http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
+ |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
+ |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20171202064825/http://news.nau.edu/navajo-professor-writes-textbook-to-help-save-her-native-language
+ |archive-date = Dec 2, 2017
+ |url-status   = live
+}}</ref>
+
+<ref name="nbc_20080731_nmadopt">{{cite news
+ |title        = New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook
+ |date         = Jul 31, 2008
+ |website      = [[NBC News]]
+ |url          = https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
+ |access-date  = Jan 25, 2003
+ |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20210226135831/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25943277
+ |archive-date = Feb 26, 2021
+ |url-status   = live
+}}</ref>
+
+<ref name="nho_20140401_novels">{{cite news
+ |last         = Yerian
+ |first        = Loretta
+ |title        = Local author takes new look at the Navajo Long Walk
+ |date         = Apr 1, 2014
+ |work         = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
+ |url          = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2014/apr/01/local-author-takes-new-look-at-the-navajo-long-wa/
+ |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
+ |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20230125092230/https://www.nhonews.com/news/2014/apr/01/local-author-takes-new-look-at-the-navajo-long-wa/
+ |archive-date = Jan 25, 2023
+ |url-status   = live
+}}</ref>
+
+<ref name="nho_20220531_obit">{{cite news
+ |title        = Diné author and scholar Dr. Evangeline Parsons Yazzie passes away at 69
+ |date         = May 31, 2022
+ |work         = [[Navajo-Hopi Observer]]
+ |url          = https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
+ |access-date  = Jan 25, 2023
+ |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20220531165224/https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/31/dine-author-and-scholar-dr-evangeline-parsons-yazz/
+ |archive-date = May 31, 2022
+ |url-status   = live
+}}</ref>
+
+<ref name="yazzie_2007_dinebizaad">{{cite book
+ |last1        = Parsons-Yazzie
+ |first1       = Evangeline
+ |last2        = Speas
+ |first2       = Margaret
+ |title        = Diné Bizaad Bínáhoo’aah: Rediscovering the Navajo Language
+ |year         = 2007
+ |publisher    = [[Salina Bookshelf]]
+ |location     = [[Flagstaff, Arizona]]
+ |oclc         = 156845819
+}}</ref>
+
+}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Yazzie. Evangeline Parsons}}
+{{Authority control}}
+[[Category:Native American women writers]]
+[[Category:21st-century Native American women]]
+[[Category:Native American women academics]]
+[[Category:21st-century Native Americans]]
+[[Category:Navajo people]]
+[[Category:Northern Arizona University alumni]]
+[[Category:20th-century American educators]]
+[[Category:20th-century American women educators]]
+[[Category:21st-century American educators]]
+[[Category:21st-century American women educators]]
+[[Category:21st-century American novelists]]
+[[Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers]]
+[[Category:21st-century American women writers]]
+[[Category:American textbook writers]]
+[[Category:Women textbook writers]]
+[[Category:Native American academics]]
+[[Category:Northern Arizona University faculty]]
+[[Category:1950s births]]
+[[Category:2022 deaths]]
+{{NorthAm-native-bio-stub}}